Yesterday, I faced with “Dependency failed for Local File Systems” right after an error message about the system can’t mount an NTFS partition when rebooting my laptop. I had no idea about this problem because it was booted for a long time ago then running with daily updates.
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How to run Photoshop CS 6 on Linux with Wine
In this article, we will consider installing Adobe Photoshop on Linux with Wine, since Adobe Photoshop does not officially support Linux.
While I used Linux for many years, I attempted to replace Adobe Photoshop with GIMP to edit images. On Linux, there are plenty of Adobe Photoshop alternatives softwares like GIMP, Kinsta, Paint.NET… However, I’m not found any programs that compatibility with Adobe Photoshop files. That’s why I have tried many approaches to running Adobe Photoshop on Linux operating systems.
mkinitcpio – Possibly missing firmware for module
Today, I tried to compress initramfs-linux.img
and initramfs-linux-fallback.img
to get more space in /boot
partition. During the generate processing of them, I found some warning messages like this:
Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
Possibly missing firmware for module: wd719x
Notes: It’s may different on your computer depend on its hardwares.
How to stop Open with winebrowser.exe
By default, after install wine or its helper like CrossOver, PlayOnLinux… Wine can really mess up with your system file associations at the moment. Some file extension was associated with Open with winebrowser.exe automatically. I faced with this inconvenience problem when open a pdf file by enter button or double click in file manager. The wine will creating a lot of file dependencies to start a new wine.exe instance, it costs time and garbage files per folder where you store the pdf file.
How to FIX High disk I/O caused by UpdateDB
Since the latest system update, I’ve been finding that at about midnight everyday, my computer starts using 100% CPU and ~100% disk I/O during a period of time. Everything was freezed and I must take a break until it’s finished. After a quick search by glances
, iostat
and iotop
, I found updatedb
is the cause of this problem.
How to Organize Photos Sorted by Date based on EXIF date
I keep all my unorganized photos in external HDD storages just by move them from camera or smartphone. Howerver, all of them aren’t aligned with the filenames. My camera photos start at NHC_xxx prefix but the photos that taken by my phone camera starts at IMG_xxx. It’s hard to reviewing and choosing the best photo to backup / print with the same category or date. Because the categories of photos have same date in almost case. As we known, when you take a picture with your digital camera or smartphone, a time stamp is embedded in the file. Other cool types of info are also embedded too, but that’s not in the scope of what I’m covering here.
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